In the last month, many of the Floating Cloud Knights of the Floating Islands have been hit hard by a combination of pirates and thieves. In order to replenish the fighting force, the commanders of the Floating Cloud Knights in various places unanimously decided to advance the recruitment work in the spring of this year to the autumn of this year. The month-long large-scale test ceremony of the Floating Cloud Knights into the group was launched on the floating islands.

Shanruo Island, a fourth-level floating island under Yunluan County of Fengliao Country, has only one village on the small island: Shanruo Village.

The autumn solstice is not yet deep, and the wind is gentle, blowing very comfortably on the face. Xia Xuanyi lay on the grassland, holding a book called "Floating Cloud Knight" in his arms, looking at the faint floating clouds in the sky. In Xiao Xuanyi's eyes, the floating clouds turned into double-edged knightly swords and shining shields, how much he wanted to pick them up and become a glorious floating cloud knight. Xiao Xuanyi smirked for a while and came back to his senses, looked at the group of sheep next to him, and sighed that he could only raise sheep for a lifetime on this small floating island.

"Xuanyi, you're back for dinner!" came a woman's gentle cry from far outside the cabin on the other side of the pasture.

Xia Xuanyi stood up with a carp, patted a little dust on his body, and responded to the woman: "Let's go back, Mom!" As he spoke, he picked up the whip and urged the sheep to rush in the direction of home.

After returning home, her mother took the whip from Xia Xuanyi's hand and skillfully drove the sheep into the fence. Afterwards, the two returned to the cabin.

Sitting at the dinner table, Xia Xuanyi didn't move his chopsticks, raised his head and asked, "Mom, hasn't Dad come back yet?"

"Not yet, next year's recruitment of the Floating Cloud Knights has been advanced to this month. Your dad is busy with work. Let's eat first, not for him. Mom took a chicken leg and put it in Xia Xuanyi's bowl.

"Oh, well. Xia Xuanyi picked up the chopsticks and buried himself in eating.

Xia Xuanyi's father, Xia Heng, is a high-ranking knight who serves as the only instructor in the quasi-knight training camp in Shanruo Village.

As a fourth-level subordinate floating island, Shanruo Island has never had the opportunity to produce any talents, and the would-be knights who have come out have all been apprentice knights on the island or nearby floating islands for a lifetime, either to do logistics support work or to serve a certain prince and nobleman. If a trainee knight wants to become a real knight, he must at least have participated in battles, but Shanruo Island, a logistics support place, is really unlikely to have any battles.

Xia Xuanyi has been trained by his father in knighthood since he was a child, such as swimming, spear throwing, fencing, riding, hunting, chess, poetry, etc., and he has carried out training beyond ordinary people. Although Xia Xuanyi wanted to defend his homeland as a Floating Cloud Knight, he also knew that this recruitment on his island was just to recruit a few logistics trainee knights, he was not interested, and he was not yet fourteen years old at the legal age to be selected as a trainee knight.

After dinner, Xia Xuanyi went to bed early after completing a series of training that a knight should have, as usual.

As the night deepened, Xia Xuanyi's father, Xia Heng, dragged his tired body home after a day.

"Haven't you slept yet?" Xia Heng looked at his wife, who was still waiting for his return, and smiled unconsciously, and the tiredness of his body seemed to have weakened a little.

Xuanyi's mother picked up the food on the table, yawned slightly, and looked at her husband with a smile: "The food is a little cold, I'll go and heat it up." ”

Xia Heng took a step forward, snatched the food from his wife's hand, and sat down to devour it.

The husband eats the food cooked by his wife, and the wife sits on the side and looks at her husband quietly.

After the meal was full, Xia Heng took a sip of the hot tea poured by his wife, and said helplessly: "Those robbers are becoming more and more rampant, and it is the time for men to protect their families and defend the country." If it weren't for ...... Eh......" Xia Heng glanced at his son, who was sleeping in the half-hidden door, and swallowed back the words that came to his lips.

Xuanyi's mother took her husband's hand and said gently, "I know, I know your ambitions." But for the sake of Xuanyi, for the sake of this family, it is best for us to live these ordinary lives!"

Xia Heng lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and said: "This time, it seems that the Floating Cloud Knights have suffered heavy losses, and even some of us, the trainee knights on the island, will enter the front line to participate in the battle. ”

Xia Xuanyi, who was asleep, heard the words of participating in the battle on the front line in a hazy way, and suddenly woke up a little, and pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation of his parents outside the door.

"Our family Xuanyi has always had the desire to fight on the battlefield, and he has been clamoring to become a Floating Cloud Knight. Xuanyi's mother smiled dotingly.

"If it were normal, this would be a great opportunity for Sylphy. In order to step up the replenishment of front-line combat effectiveness, the Floating Cloud Knights Association has decided to temporarily lower the age of selected trainee knights to twelve years old. It's exactly the age of Xuanyi. Xia Heng lowered his voice and continued: "But now that the pirates and thieves are united, their strength has increased greatly, and the battle situation on the front line is anxious. I really can't let Xuanyi go to such a dangerous battlefield at such a young age. ”

Xuanyi's mother nodded again and again, and said in a low voice: "Xuanyi must not know about this." ”

......

The next day, before the first rays of dawn penetrated the black night, Xia Xuanyi quietly got up, got dressed, carried the luggage that his parents had sorted out after they fell asleep last night, and moved to the door on tiptoe step by step.

"Whew! It's finally out. Xia Xuanyi, who had spent a lot of effort outside the house, took a breath and walked to the fence where the sheep were kept. Looking at the lambs that he had taken care of for many years, he looked back at the wooden house, thinking about his parents who had raised him for many years, and the corners of his eyes gradually moistened.

On the one hand, it is the ideal of becoming a cloud knight, and on the other hand, it is his own thoughts about home, Xiao Xuanyi doesn't know how to choose.

With a squeak, the wooden house was pushed open, Xia Xuanyi was a little frightened, and a little happy. It was his father who came out, looking at his father, who was strict with him on weekdays, Xia Xuanyi was speechless for a while.

"Have you figured it out? Xia Heng looked at his son solemnly.

Xiao Xuanyi wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and choked up, "Dad, I, I don't know." ”

Xia Heng walked up to Xuan Yi and asked, "Do you want to be a Floating Cloud Knight?"

Xia Xuanyi raised his head, looked at his father, and replied firmly: "Think, I want to become a real Floating Cloud Knight!"

"Okay!" Xia Heng took out his sword from the storage ring and said in a positive voice, "I, Xia Heng." In the name of the Floating Cloud Knight, Xia Xuanyi was sealed today. ”

Ever since Xia Xuanyi knew about the Floating Cloud Knight, he often fantasized about the sealing scene at the moment when he became a trainee knight, but he didn't expect it to be the one in front of him. Xia Xuanyi put down the luggage on his shoulder, knelt on the ground according to the sealing etiquette, and looked down.

Xia Heng straightened his waist, held the sword in his right hand, lightly placed the end of the sword on the top of Xia Xuanyi's head, and read it passionately: "At the moment of the strong enemy, be fearless and fearless! Be bold and loyal, worthy of the gods! Geng Zheng is outspoken, and would rather die than be punished! Protect the weak, no blame for heavenly justice! This is your oath, remember it firmly! Canonize you as a trainee knight at this moment!"

"I, Xia Xuanyi, will uphold the will of loyalty, faith, glory and courage. Worthy of the name of the Knight of the Floating Clouds!"

After the ceremony, Xia Heng, as a father, personally put on the Qingluan badge belonging to Yunluan County for his son.

In the wooden house, Xuanyi's mother, who was leaning against the window, watched everything silently, tears flickering.